Psychosocial Risk Assessment and Consulting Services

Psychosocial Consulting Services

Psychgroup delivers targeted psychosocial risk and OHS consulting to help organisations prevent psychological injury and build mentally healthy workplaces.  Services include desk, top audits, psychosocial risk assessments, psychological health and safety infrastructure reviews, implementation of risk controls, and prevention plans. mental health strategy development, job design and re‑design, vicarious and cumulative trauma prevention, managing sexual harassment and positive duty obligations, and occupational violence and aggression management. Our workplace assessment tool profiles risks by domain, produces heat maps and protective‑factor overlays at team, work‑area or site level, and feeds clear, prioritised Prevention Plans that translate findings into practical actions. Psychosocial hazards can be hidden or obvious, but left unchecked they drive longer recoveries and higher costs; we combine robust assessment, OHS compliance advice and hands‑on implementation to reduce liability and improve employee wellbeing. 

Psychosocial Risk Assessment

Our Psychosocial Risk Assessment Tool is a workplace survey designed to ensure the organisation is meeting its duties under Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws by taking proactive measures to identify and control psychological health and safety risks. Controlling risks is also seen to decrease the disruption associated with staff turnover and absenteeism and is seen to also improve broader organisational performance and productivity. 

Our risk assessment will:

  1. Identify which psychosocial hazards are present 
  2. Isolate where the hazards are more prominent
  3. Assess the severity of the hazards 
  4. Provide guidance on controlling control the risks 

Psychgroup consultants are experienced in OHS Psychological Health and Safety professionals and can work with key Board Members, Executives,  Managers, HR, WHS, and HSR personnel to implement a risk assessment and design effective controls. 

Psychosocial Risk Assessment
Consulting

Prevention Plans

Prevention plans are used by employers to document risks associated with certain psychosocial hazard (s) identified in a workplace. They support by structuring a plan for how the organisation plans to control the risk (s) associated with the hazards and highlight a plan for consultation, implementation, monitoring and review.

Prevention plans are recommended for certain psychosocial hazards such as:

  • Aggression and Violence
  • Exposure to Trauma
  • Exposure to high job demands (e.g. shift work)
  • Sexual harassment and gendered violence

Psychgroup consultants are experienced Occupational Health & Safety professionals and can work with key Board Members, Executives,  Managers, Human Resources, Work Health and Safety, and Health and Safety Representatives to design and implement standard Prevention Plans.

Commonly Recognised Psychosocial Hazards

Low Role Clarity

Low Recognition and Reward

Low Job Demands

Poor Support

Poor Organisational Justice

Low Job control

High job demands

Poor Organisational Change Management

Remote and Isolated Work

Bullying

Work Related Violence and Agression

Exposure to Trauma